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Constance Chapple

Constance Chapple

Associate Professor

Mitchell Peck.

Office: Kaufman 332A
Phone: (405) 325-1751
Email: cchapple@ou.edu
Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


Constance Chapple is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Oklahoma. She graduated from the University of Arizona in 1999 with a degree in sociology and has served on the faculties of the University of Nebraska and the University of Cincinnati. She does research on families and crime, gender and crime, child abuse and neglect, and the consequences of incarceration for children, youth and adults. She is a member of the editorial board of Violence and Victims and has published research in outlets such as Justice QuarterlySocial Science ResearchDeviant Behavior and the Journal of Criminal Justice. She is the mom to two great girls.


Ph.D. - University of Arizona, 1999


Criminological theory, group differences in crime, peers and crime, child abuse and neglect, research methods